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Lit up. Update: Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks.

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

Rorschach test.

“The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.”

Baltimore-ese: “A-rabs and Arabs.”

An important media advisory from the AAJA: Only they can use ethnic descriptors. Everyone else: Back off!
Too.
Ridiculous.
Reader Doug in Colorado writes:
Unbelievable. If there were any consistency, they would be lauding the fact that he made great strides in bringing greater diversity to the ranks of mass murderers, a segment in which the Asian-American community [...]

In March, I linked to the story of DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek, who was suspended for allegedly offending Muslim students. John Ruberry at Marathon Pundit has been following the case and has an exclusive on a slander suit just filed by Klocek against the school.
More at The American Thinker. Background here.
AP brief here.

Remember this embattled cross?

When last I blogged about the beloved war memorial on a mountaintop in the San Diego area, a local atheist seemed on the verge of winning a protacted legal battle to tear the cross down.
Now, it’s headed for a citywide vote.
After an emotional six-hour hearing in which veterans pleaded with the City [...]

Harvard U.’s Larry Summers pays penance for his politically incorrect remarks about women and science:
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, under fire for comments on women in the sciences, said the school would spend $50 million over 10 years to promote diversity on its faculty and reform the way women in science and engineering are treated.
The [...]

Must-read of the day, on how political correctness has corrupted the Los Angeles Police Department is in The American Enterprise online. An excerpt:
Los Angeles County averages 1,000 murders every year, two thirds of them carried out by gangs. Most of the victims never make the papers (though every charge of “racial profiling” by an ACLU [...]

Lots of buzz in New England and from parentbloggers about this book:

The book, “Who’s in a Family?,” teaches preschoolers about “multicultural contemporary family units” including nuclear, intergenerational, mixed-race, and lesbian and gay arrangements. David Parker, father of a 5-year-old boy in Concord, Mass., was arrested Wednesday at his son’s kindergarten over a disagreement about the [...]

The Washington Times’s Valerie Richardson has a story out today that wins my p.c.- hell-in-a-handbasket award:
DENVER — The students in Vincent Pulciani’s seventh-grade class were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this week when they heard the voice over the intercom say something they’d never heard before, at least not during the Pledge.
Instead of “one nation, [...]

Just to lighten things up a little…
Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven’t seen this ridiculous story about Snohomish , Wa., public school officials banning t-shirts with the word “Snohos” because it’s “derogatory,” read it now.
Will Ho-Hos be next on the hit list?
How about Boho?
Or SoHo?
And will the P.C. cops now [...]

The principal of a high school in Salem, Ore., refuses to allow one of her students, Shea Riecke, to post a picture of her brother, a Marine, on a classroom bulletin board. Here is the photo. (Shea’s brother, Cpl Bill Riecke, is on the right.)

Photo credit: Marine Corps Moms
Normally this sort of thing would pass [...]

An aggrieved atheist has won his longtime battle against a 43-foot cross that stood on a mountaintop in the San Diego area. AP reports:
A 43-foot cross is to be removed from public land after a 15-year legal battle came to an end this week when the City Council rejected a proposal to transfer the land [...]

With the War on Christmas behind us, it’s time for the War on Easter to begin.

So, I’m sure you’ve all seen this P.C. run amok story getting lots of blog buzz today. Apparently, the grievance-mongers have nothing better to do than attack IKEA for sexist instructions that discriminate against Muslim women because they were illustrated only with male cartoon figures.
Like John Stossel sez: Gimme a break!
The upside of this tempest [...]

…trying to discipline disrespectful students.
See the photos and video.
So, what are administrators at the Brick Township, N.J., public school where the incident occurred doing to solve the “problem?”
They are considering banning cell phones, because it was a student’s phone cam that videotaped the teacher’s outburst, which was then spread on Internet sites.
Educrats.

Source: Albany Times-Union
Raven Furbert, 12, made headlines last month when she blew the whistle on her Schenectady, N.Y., school district, which banned her from wearing a pro-military beaded necklace and bracelet. Raven has an uncle serving in Iraq and crafted the jewelry during Christmas vacation. School officials told her the jewelry was “gang-related.”
The Albany Times-Union [...]

Brown University’s president is concerned about the homogeneity of opinion on campus. Inside Higher Ed reports:
Amid a national debate on whether colleges are open to all viewspoints, Brown University’s president gave a surprising talk to students Tuesday to welcome them back for the spring semester.
Ruth Simmons, the president, told them she was concerned about reports [...]

Check this out. Hispanic activists are mad at the makers of the American Girl dolls (my mom bought my daughter her first one, Samantha, for Christmas…a great improvement over Bratz dolls IMO).
So, what’s the latest protest about? The ethnic activists don’t like the story line that accompanies the Marisol doll because her family moves from [...]

Most of my readers are probably familiar with the famous multiple-choice quiz that implicates Muslim men in various terrorist attacks. For example,
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid with dynamite left over from the
train job.
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages [...]

Make sure you are not drinking anything near your computer when you read this.

Update: Reader Mike Gaffney writes in…
As a Red Sox fan, I thank GOD that this twit has a Yankees cap on

The New York Times’ obituary of football star Reggie White contains the following indictment:
White created a stir in March 1998 with a speech to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In it, he referred to homosexuality as “one of the biggest sins in the Bible” and used ethnic stereotypes for blacks and whites.
At the time, White, considering [...]

Joe Gandelman gets into the ancient non-denominational-winter-solstice-holiday spirit.
John Hawkins finds a Seussian tribute to this non-religion-specific celebration.
And “Happy Ramahanukwanzmas” shirts are still on sale at Glenn Beck’s site.

My column today is about the persecution of Christians around the world. While we’re all having a jolly time covering the war on Christmas, there are many forgotten victims of the bloody, repressive war on Christianity by Islamists and totalitarian regimes. Excerpt:
In Iraq, Islamist rebel troops have declared open season on Christian churches, priests and [...]

If you live in or near Bogota, N.J., or feel like driving there to play a small part in the War to Save Christmas, check this out:
Bogota Mayor and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan told Essex County Republicans last night that he is organizing an “illegal” night of Christmas Carols, Hanukah songs and other musical [...]

Secularists in Vermont have demanded that a state-run veteran’s home take down a cross decorated with red, white, and blue lights. Employees at the Vermont Veteran’s Home had put the large cross atop a gazebo to honor local Vermont Guard troops who left last month for a tour of duty in the Middle East. After [...]

Didja see this? From Onalaska, Tx.:
The lyrics of a satirical Christmas song are brewing controversy at a local school. One parent says the words are racist. School officials in the town of Onalaska say it’s just a big misunderstanding. The song is called “Leroy, the Redneck Reindeer.” There are no direct references to racism in [...]

“Happy Ramahanuqwanzmas.”
(Hat tip: Reader Garth Olson)
Update: Another reader clues me in to the origins. It’s a Glenn Beck thang!